Red Lipstick [editing]

Chapter 20

*grade 8 Flashback*

Zayn POV

Liam and I turned the corner stopping for a moment to catch our breaths when I focused in on Harry. He was hitting Jay in the head, punch after punch, hit after hit Jay fought back for a few minutes but they stopped. He was just laying there, not moving.

“Harry Stop!” Liam yelled as we started running towards him. We tried to pull him off but he flicked us off.

“Harry you’re gonna fucking kill him! STOP IT” I grabbed him by the hair and liam grabbed him by the  shirt, we struggled for a while but we finally got him off and threw him to the floor.

“Harry” I said trying to catch my breath, I looked down at him. His eyes were black, something happened he snapped. Harry had found out the Jay slapped his cousin Amanda and it sent harry into a blind rage.

Our parents found out about what happened and sent us to military school 2 weeks later, they thought it would snap us out of whatever was “Wrong” with us. Nothing was wrong though, we came back bigger, strong, smarter, and giving less fucks.

*present time*

“Harry fucking cut it out!” I shouted “Looked at your hands! Your bleeding just stop”

Liam and I ran up to him like we did all the years ago, I grabbed his arms and Liam gripped his shirt and Louis ran up grabbing him by the throat. But harry didn’t give up, he just started kicking slowly breaking the door. He was going to kick it again when Leighton yelled “Harry just fucking stop already! I’m opening the fucking door!”

Everyone froze, even harry, everyone was breathing hard trying to catch their breaths. The door started to unlock and slowly creep open, Leighton walked out first with Niall tucked behind her. Both of their hair was a sloppy mess, Leighton had on Nialls shirt and a pair of shorts while niall was standing with his pants on shirtless.

Leighton POV

I walked out and locked eyes on the boys, 1 with Angry eyes, 2 with confused eyes, and 1 just looking at my like an upset older brother. I stood there for a minute before Liam finally broke the ice.

“Niall… Leighton… Whats going on?” he looked so lost

“Why don’t you ask Harry, let him catch you up on his lies. Then ill tell you about mine.” I quickly walked passed them into the living room pulling Niall with me. He sat next to me and I threw my legs over his lap and waited for everyone to come in.

slowly one by one they made their why in to the living room Liam sat on the  other side of me. Lou's Harry and zayn all say on the sofa next across from us. 

"So Harry?" Liam said calmly "go on, what's going on?" 

Harry sat quietly for a while before look at me, then back at Louis. Louis nodded his head I guess giving Harry permission. 

He was talking for what seemed like hours to me, giving every detail from when he first realized he was attracted to Lou as well as me, their first kiss, starting to date me, and the first time they had sex. Hearing every detail only making me feel worse, as he started explaining exactly how often he snuck away to see Lou, only made me start crying again. 

Harry and Lou snuck away twice a week and one weekend every month or two to be with each other. I was clenching Nialls arm so tight, he tried to get his arm out of my grip but he couldn't. So he just wrapped his other arm around me, rubbing my back trying to calm me.

Finally Zayn spoke

"So you're... Gay?" He asked slightly raising his eyebrow 

"No" Harry and Louis said in unison. 

"So why the fuck did u drag leighton into this?" Liam asked firmly while gripping the arm rest. "You could've just been with Lou, we wouldn't have treated you any different"

I simply nodded my head. Truth is I'd always been attracted to Harry, but of he would've said he wanted to be with Lou I would've left it. Hell, I might've still been with Liam. 

"I wanted her" he paused "too"

"So this is just you being a greedy little dickhead" Louis said

"Don't act innocent Lou, you were part of this. You're a part of hurting your sister" zayn rubbed his forehead " your fucking sister Louis" 

"I never said I was innocent, when they first started dating I was okay with it because I thought... It'd make me hate him. So then I could just move on and just forget..."

Harry's face change from calm to pissed as Louis spoke " what about her! Leighton your turn tell us your lies!" 

He shouted at me. Niall tensed " don't talk to her like that, she doesn't deserve that you wanker."

They went back and forth at each other for a while before I decided I had enough. “ALRIGHT ALREADY!”

Everyone froze

“its not lies Harold” I shifted taking my legs off of Niall “I lied about where I was, the first night Niall went to Elle’s party. I wasn’t handling anything, I was with him. I’m the mystery girl he was always talking about.”

“So you’ve been sleeping with him for how long Leighton?” Harry asked very rudely if I do say so myself.

“Yesterday was the second time” I said matter of factly “The first time was last weekend”

“So you were fucking cheating on me, before you even knew I was cheating” harry stood up walkng towards me, Niall and liam both but an arm in front of me shielding me “you are a… FUCKING HYPOCRITE Leighton. All you ever do is lie and manipulate”

He stood in front of me leaning down so that his face was in front of mine, his eyes were bloodshot and the color was slowly draining from his iris’ his eyes were becoming black. I could feel the grip Liam had on me grow tighter and tighter with each second that passed.

Niall POV

The why Harry was looking at Leighton had me on edge, I knew what she did was wrong but still not as bad as what he did. If he love Lou so much why was he so mad at Leighton.

“you are a slut” Harry spat at her, she turned to look at Liam before shocing out hands off and standing up.

“me really Harry?” she said almost laughing “I’m not screwing your family member. I didn’t run around sleeping with anything with a good pair of legs last year” she paused again before shoving Harry away “I regret ever dating you” she was almost emotionless

She looked passed Harry at Lou and just simply gave a half smile and he nodded. I didn’t question it, that’s between them. She sat down this time on my lap and wrapped her arms around my neck giving me a kiss on the cheek.

And that’s when Harry snapped, he started running for me Louis and Zayn tried to grab his arms but he slid right through them, I threw Leighton off of my lap and stood getting ready for whatever Harry was about to do. When he stopped right in front of me. Or faces just inches from each other, the veins were popping out of his neck. We stood that way for a while, I turned to look at Liam when it happened.

Harrys fist connected with my jaw...

I should’ve known better.